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irresistibly drawn to her, which is exactly how she planned it. But she can’t fall for him, because murder is the only the first stage of her plan…Michael Joseph will support with an “unmissable, eye- catching” campaign.
John Barlow To the Grave HQ, 26th, £14.99, HB, 9780008408909 Second in the crime series set in Leeds featuring half-Sicilian DS Joe Romano (Right to Kill). When Romano first meets Ana Dobrescu she’s clearly scared. The second time he sees her, she’s dead and the prime suspect, her millionaire boyfriend, is in a coma.
Billy Billingham & Conor Woodman Survive to Fight Hodder & Stoughton, 26th, £14.99, HB, 9781529364606 Second in the Matt Mason series from SAS stalwart turned celebrity body- guard Billingham, who now presents Channel 4’s “SAS: Who Dares Wins”. Mason learns that his daughter has been abducted by Somali pirates while working on a billionaire’s yacht. BookScan
Sharon Bolton The Dark Orion, 26th, £14.99, HB, 9781409198345 Latest in the Lacey Flint series from the brilliant Sharon Bolton. DCI Mark Joesbury has discovered a new terrorist threat from an “incel” (involuntary celibates) extremist group massing on the dark web.
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Nana Nkweti Walking on Cowrie Shells The Indigo Press, 5th, £10.99, PB, 9781911648277
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And the leaders of the movement have Flint in their sights… BookScan
Katarzyna Bonda Conspiracy of Blood Hodder & Stoughton, 19th, £20, HB, 9781473630499 Profiler and former under- cover cop Sasza Zaluska (Girl at Midnight) is drawn into the case of a woman who has disappeared from a village. The roots of the crime seem to lie all the way back in the darkness of the Second World War. Hodder plans to bring Warsaw-based Bonda to the UK to promote.
Grieving the death of his daughter, novelist Aaron Hollan Broussard tries to save two young men from a life of crime while battling earthly and supernatural outlaws. BookScan
Hutchinson Heine- mann, 12th, £12.99, HB, 9781529151374 Speculative thriller. Thousands of people around the world receive an email telling them that they once chose to have a traumatic memory removed, and they now have a chance to recover that memory. Is the truth worth the pain, or is it better not to know?
Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb and Kristin Scott Thomas as Di Taverner. BookScan
but there can only be one winner and the stakes are higher than they could ever imagine.
Tom Bradby Yesterday’s Spy Bantam Press, 26th, £12.99, HB, 9781787632462 Latest from the ITV “News at Ten” presenter turned bestselling novelist is a standalone. Washed-up spy Harry Tower learns that his son has gone missing in Iran after he wrote an exposé about government corruption. When Harry arrives in Tehran to search, he finds a city on the cusp of revo- lution. BookScan
James Lee Burke Every Cloak Rolled in Blood Orion, 26th, £20, HB, 9781398707870 Burke’s most autobio- graphical novel to date, according to the publisher.
Ajay Chowdhury The Cook Harvill Secker, 5th, £12.99, HB, 9781787303140 Second in the series featuring Kamil Rahman, who works in a Brick Lane restaurant but used to be a detective back in Kolkata, follows The Waiter. When a young woman Kamil knows is murdered, Kamil begins his own investigation. The author was the winner of the inaugural Harvill Secker Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Competition. BookScan
Lucy Clarke One of the Girls HarperFiction, 26th, £12.99, HB, 9780008462376 Latest thriller from the author of The Castaways, a recent Waterstones Thriller of the Month, is set on the sun-drenched Greek island of Aegos, where six friends antici- pate a glorious holiday with a bride-to-be. But for one, it will be their last... BookScan
Jo Harkin Tell Me an Ending
Chris Hauty Storm Rising S&S Adult Fiction, 26th, £20, HB, 9781398511262 Ex-White House intern Hayley Chill (Deep State) discovers a fully realised conspiracy to break off several southern states from the US and form a new country, founded on white nationalist ideals. It is up to her to stop a second US civil war before it starts.
Mick Herron Bad Actors Baskerville, 12th, £18.99, HB, 9781529378702 The much-admired, CWA Dagger-winning Slough House series reaches book eight. Has Diana Taverner overplayed her hand at last? “The most completely realised espionage universe since that peopled by George Smiley,” says the Times. The TV adaptation “Slow Horses” will air on Apple TV in the spring, starring
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I’ve not seen a proof of this collection of short stories from the Cameroonian American writer focusing on the lives of those with a multicultural heritage in the US and Africa, but to say the US reviews were raves is putting it mildly.
“Revels in variety—of character, style and even genre… Lively and fast-paced, funny and tragic, these stories refuse a singular African experience in favor [sic] of a vivid plurality,” found the New Yorker. “Raucous and thoroughly impressive… Sensitivity, nuance and keen attention to history shine through on every page,” praised the New York Times.
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Dolen Perkins-Valdez Take My Hand Phoenix, 12th, £14.99, HB, 9781474622677
American history. In 1970s Alabama, Black nurse Civil Townsend starts at the Montgomery Family Planning
Clinic and is surprised to find two of her new patients are just 11 and 13 years old. Neither has so much as kissed a boy but both have been put on birth control, and later the state makes an even more egregious decision about their bodies. Civil is driven by her love for the girls to fight for justice whatever the cost.
Anthony Horowitz With a Mind to Kill Jonathan Cape, 26th, £20, HB, 9781787333482 Third James Bond novel from Horowitz follows Trigger Mortis and Forever and a Day. It is M’s funeral. One man is missing from the graveside: the traitor James Bond, in custody accused of M’s murder. “Ian Fleming would be proud,” said the Guardian of the series so far. BookScan
Jack Jordan Do No Harm S&S Adult Fiction, 26th, £14.99, HB, 9781398505674 S&S is super keen on this thriller about a surgeon whose son is kidnapped. In order to secure his free- dom, she must kill a man on the operating table. If she fails, she’ll never see her son again… From the author of Night by Night.
Scott Kershaw The Game HQ, 12th, £14.99, HB, 9780008530877
Début Across the globe, five strangers
receive a message from an unknown number: the person they love most is in danger. To save them, they must play The Game,
Camilla Läckberg & Henrik Fexeus Trapped HarperFiction, 26th, £16.99, HB, 9780008464189 A new trilogy from the Swedish crime writer, co-written with renowned mentalist Fexeus. Detective Mina Dabiri is faced with a woman murdered inside a magician’s box by swords that pierced her body. She enlists the help of a celebrity mentalist for his insight into the secret world of magic and illusion.
Eric Van Lustbader Omega Rules Aries, 24th, £20, HB, 9781803282084 Former black ops field agent Evan Ryder searches for answers when a colleague at Parachute (a computing firm whose private espio- nage network exceeds any government spy agency) is assassinated in Vienna. Third in the series.
Patricia Marques House of Silence Hodder & Stoughton, 26th, £14.99, HB, 9781529336719 Second in the Lisbon-set speculative detective series follows The
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Début Orion’s “superlead” début of the year is inspired by real events, and a shocking chapter of recent
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